Simon on your iPhone, APC notifier, and more

Thu, 2008-01-31 16:45 — David Sinclair

One of the nice things about Dejal Simon is its flexibility. Not just in the wide range of website, server, application, etc monitoring services and notifiers, but that it can be extended by anyone, not just me.

As you may know, I have a page on the Dejal site devoted to such extensions, the Simon Extras page. Newly contributed services, notifiers, and reports tend to get bundled into the application in the next feature release, but you don't have to wait — you can download the new goodies now. In fact, existing customers need to do so to get them, as the bundled ones are only visible with the default data install for people first trying Simon (I have plans to improve that situation in the future via an enhanced update mechanism).

Here are some of the recent offerings:

iPhone: A report template to display reports on an iPhone or iPod touch (try it yourself with a live demo: point your iPhone at www.dejal.com/simon/iphonedemo):

APC Masterswitch: A notifier script to restart an outlet on an APC Masterswitch with Network Management Card v2.6.1. This has been requested by many others, so I'm sure will be much appreciated.

TCP Port Scanner: A service script to check all TCP ports on a server, to identify which are open.

Network Time (NTP): A service script test that an NTP server is responding.

Incoming Mail (POP) via SSL: A service script test that a POP3/SSL server is responding.

Port Available: A service script like the Port services, but simply checks if a specified port is open, without actually communicating on it.

Visit the Simon Extras page to download these and other handy goodies.